Info: Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, 15101 Lancaster Road, Lancaster. Saddleback Butte State Park, also in Lancaster, is a little drier and higher in altitude than the reserve.

California poppy are in bloom near Antelope Valley in Lancaster, California, Sunday, April 26, 2014. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press/Corbis Close-up of a California poppy blooming near Antelope Valley in ...

Visitors have converged on Lancaster, California, to see the first such superbloom in four years. But to the dismay of officials, the poppies have not blossomed in the state park poppy reserve ...